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Thousands of people clutching flowers and candles lined up Tuesday on a typically bleak, gray afternoon to pay their last respects to Boris Nemtsov, the charismatic politician and opposition leader who was gunned down last week in the shadow of the Kremlin. For hours, the grieving crowds filed past Nemtsov's casket in the Andrei Sakharov Center, named after the prominent Soviet dissident who spent years in internal exile in Gorky, now known as Nizhny Novgorod, where Nemtsov began his political career. After the viewing, the casket was taken for burial in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery. Nemtsov, 55, a former deputy prime minister under President Boris Yeltsin, was killed late Friday as...

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Thousands of people clutching flowers and candles lined up Tuesday on a typically bleak, gray afternoon to pay their last respects to Boris Nemtsov, the charismatic politician and opposition leader who was gunned down last week in the shadow of the...

A man accused of killing two people with his car during an illegal street race in Chatsworth was not driving the high-performance Mustang involved in the fatal crash, his attorney said Monday.
Henry Michael Gevorgyan, 21, was booked on suspicion of...

It began like so many other arguments on the sorrowful pavement of Los Angeles' skid row.
About half an hour before police fatally shot him Sunday, the man known to others on the streets as Africa sat outside the tent he had pitched on the sidewalk of...

Authorities in Bangladesh arrested a suspect Monday in the slaying of secular American blogger Avijit Roy.
An elite police unit announced it had detained Farabi Shafiur Rahman, who had threatened in Facebook posts to kill Roy, a prominent Bangladeshi...

A driver accused of fatally striking two people with his car during an illegal street race in Chatsworth remains in custody on $2-million bail, with a second driver still wanted for questioning.
Henry Michael Gevorgyan, 21, was booked on suspicion of...

A 30-year-old Inglewood man was charged Monday with shooting a 21-year-old transgender woman during a robbery and forcing an 11-year-old girl into prostitution, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
Robert James Spells was...

The Arizona jurors who will decide whether Jodi Arias should be put to death will resume deliberations Monday.
The jury began deliberating Arias' fate Wednesday afternoon after hearing both sides' closing statements the day before. They continued their...

In "Secrets and Lies," ABC's new limited series premiering Sunday, the killing of a young boy unhinges an already troubled family and turns an idyllic community into a suspicious mob, further riled by a predatory media and the icy relentlessness...

The mother of a baby whose body was found in a remote area of Yolo County earlier this week has been charged with killing the child, whose disappearance prompted a frantic search in Northern California.
Samantha Green was arrested about noon...

World leaders on Saturday joined allies of slain Russian opposition leader Boris Y. Nemtsov in mourning the loss of a tireless advocate for democracy in a country increasingly dominated by an autocratic ruler.
Hundreds brought flowers to a bridge near...

Deshawnda “Ta-Ta” Sanchez’s last words were captured in a 911 call. On Dec. 3, 2014, about 4 a.m., Sanchez, a 21-year-old transgender woman, was trying to escape an attacker in the 6100 block of South Wilton Place in Chesterfield Square. She told a...

Assailants hacked to death an American secular writer and blogger of Bangladeshi origin and seriously wounded his wife outside a book fair in Dhaka, the South Asian nation’s capital, officials said Friday.
Avijit Roy, 42, a champion of liberalism and...

A convicted drug dealer whose wife was linked to 20th Century Fox executive Gavin Smith has pleaded not guilty to murder in Smith’s death.
John Creech, 42, is expected back in court March 26 to schedule his preliminary hearing. Outside the courtroom...

Most road rage incidents are emotional collisions between strangers, encounters where tempers explode and mayhem ensues.
That’s how Tammy Meyers appeared to have died late last week. Police said the 44-year-old suburban mother of four had encountered a...

It had been years since Sloan Sulham had heard from any of his men in Iraq.
But the soft voice and Philippine accent on the phone were immediately recognizable: Spc. Reyes.
"Arvin," Reyes reminded his former platoon sergeant.
Sulham wasn't...

The Justice Department said Tuesday that it was closing its investigation into the shooting death three years ago of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin without filing criminal charges against former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
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The state of Georgia on Wednesday delayed the execution of its only female death row inmate, ahead of a winter storm forecast to hit many areas with several inches of snow.
Kelly Renee Gissendaner, 46, had been scheduled for execution at 7 p.m. local...

Reaction to the conviction of the man who shot “American Sniper” Chris Kyle late Tuesday was swift, emotional and in one case, chilling.
Minutes after a Texas jury of 10 women and two men found Eddie Ray Routh guilty of capital murder, a fellow...

You might call Andrew Jarecki an expert in family dysfunction. His directorial debut, the Oscar-nominated documentary "Capturing the Friedmans," was a gripping portrait of a father and son accused of child molestation. The subject of his...